US federal alert warns of the discovery of malicious cyber tools | US national security | The Guardian I use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, (CISA) a lot. Many of the blog posts I run here, start there. However there is a vast amount of information on the CISA …
CISA among other urge Apache users to get patching
Apache has issued another patch for a vulnerability in Struts 2 framework for Java applications as the one issued in 2020 did not quite work. Apache says 2-year-old Struts bug wasn’t fully fixed • The Register S2-062 – Apache Struts 2 Wiki – Apache Software Foundation
Global co-operation brings down a giant cyber-criminal website selling stolen login credentials
As you can see from the image above this was a worldwide effort, including the National Crime Agency and Europol, to close the doors on RaidForums, a resource that cyber criminals used to buy and sell stolen information. Unusually this site was on the internet – you and I could …
Ukrainian power grid hack thwarted
This story is doing the rounds everywhere. A joint effort between ESET and Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-UA) defeated the attack, discovering a new variant of the Industroyer malware – which was used in a previous attack on the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. This malware is associated …
A Google story – this time they are going after the scammers – UPDATED
This story was first posted on 11 April 2022. A simple story – Google is taking a bad actor to court that has been using their systems to run their scams. Hounding scammers with litigation (blog.google) UPDATE Here are some details of the scam. Google sues alleged scam site operator …
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